62 Cases More or Less Each Containing Six Jars of Jam v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 593 · 1951
Citation profile
232 federal appellate · 49 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 492 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley (1982), Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (2000)
232 federal appellate · 49 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 13 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. 62 Cases (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Dotterweich · Federal Security Adm'r v. Quaker Oats Co · United States v. Moore · United States v. 62 Cases
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 492 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur problem is to construe what Congress has written. After all, Congress expresses its purpose by words. It is for us to ascertain--neither to add nor to subtract, neither to delete nor to distort.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In our anxiety to effectuate the congressional purpose of protecting the public, we must take care not to extend the scope of the statute beyond the point where Congress indicated it would stop.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““By the Act of 1906, 34 Stat. 768 , as successively strengthened, Congress exerted its power to keep impure and adulterated foods and drugs out of the channels of commerce. The purposes of this legislation, we have said, ‘touch phases of the lives and health of people which, in the circumstances of modern industrialism, are largely beyond self-protection * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.